Brrrrr! Blooming snow! 1 day old news.

Overnight, a new bridge inspector has arrived from Up North to help us out here in Milton Keynes, I found him (or her – it’s hard to tell with bridge inspectors these days) wandering about looking lost when I took Sandy for a walk in the snow (which I thoroughly enjoyed).  I’ll have to point him (or her) in the right direction.  As you can see, he’s (or she’s) very bright, and certainly wearing all of the PPE – Personal Protection Equipment required these days, but if you look closely, you’ll find the silly sausage has got the hi-viz jacket on the wrong way round!  Also the laces on the steel-toe capped safety shoes are undone.  Not very clever is it?  Still I’m sure that he (or she) knows enough about bridges to get by.  The old one did apparently but he made too much noise.

 Unlike the old bridge inspector, this one shuns publicity which is probably just as well he (or she) says.  After all, we don’t want anyone to know what’s going on do we?  The name’s Pinocchio apparently!  Can you see why boys and girls?

If he (or she) sticks around long enough, maybe they’ll tell you all something about our interesting bridges here on this blog.  Do you think I should let him (or her) loose on the blog?  The new Bridge Inspector says that it would help us get better maintained bridges if you would all please become a follower of the blog by clicking the Follower tab – top left.  Also that he (or she) would like to get 1000 followers in MK by the end of February so please tell all your friends too.  He (I think it’s really a bloke) thinks that the council and the people who are supposed to look after the bridges will then have to start following the blog themselves because they won’t know which bridge is to be featured next with photos of some of the defects.  Then they’ll have to do something about them.

Pinocchio likes the look of Milton Keynes already which is great because the weather suggests that he could be here a long time.